Course

Become an AI-Native Builder

Colin Matthews

Head of Education, Lenny's Newsletter

Learn to increase your leverage with AI

📌 Lenny helped create this course but isn't teaching it live. It's led by Lenny's Newsletter education team.

For years, the PM job drifted toward purely coordination and alignment work. That version of the role is fading fast. The best PMs at the best companies have quietly rebuilt how they work over the past year. They prototype with their real code. They query data conversationally with MCP. They use AI to create leverage.

In this 4-week course, you'll learn foundational technical skills while applying new AI workflows leveraging the latest tools. Through hours of hands-on practice, you'll discover a new way to think about how to leverage AI to get work done.

Bonuses:

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This course is targeted at Product Managers but is just as useful for designers, marketing, ops and other non-technical builders.

What you’ll learn

Leverage AI at each step of the product development lifecycle: discovery, prototyping, and delivery.

  • Install, configure, and build your first custom skill with Claude Code or an equivalent coding agent

  • Connect your first MCP server to pull live context from tools like Linear, Slack, or Drive

  • Know when to reach for a coding agent vs. a chat interface for any given task

  • Connect PostHog via MCP and query funnels, cohorts, and feature adoption conversationally

  • Pull support tickets and usage logs into a single view to surface patterns you'd miss manually

  • Write a hypothesis and opportunity assessment your team can actually act on

  • Generate a structured feature spec from a hypothesis and iterate on it with your agent

  • Use pattern libraries like Mobbin to ground your prototype in proven UI/UX decisions

  • Build multiple prototype variations using your product's existing components and design system

  • Learn how to navigate git workflows like cloning, PRs, and merging.

  • Iterate locally with your coding agent to test, debug, and get the draft to handoff quality

  • Deploy a PR preview to Railway so stakeholders can click through your work

  • Draft release notes, Slack announcements, and stakeholder updates grounded in your project context

  • Create evals to ensure automated outputs are still high quality

Learn directly from Colin

Colin Matthews

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Head of Education, Lenny's Newsletter

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Who this course is for

  • You're not already using MCPs daily, prototyping with your real components, shipping PRs, or scheduling tasks that judge their own outputs

  • You work on a product team and want to understand how AI tools change the way you ship

  • You want a structured, hands-on environment where you build real skills instead of watching demos

Prerequisites

  • Coding agent

    You must have one of Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor with sufficient usage limits (Insider Lenny's subscribers get Cursor free for 12 months)

  • Node js, Github CLI, Python

    You will need to be able to run code on your computer. The course has setup instructions

  • Personal account with Claude / Codex / Cursor

    The course works best if you do not have limits placed by your work account on your coding agent, like blocking MCPs or skills.

What's included

Colin Matthews

Live sessions

Learn directly from Colin Matthews in a real-time, interactive format.

Lifetime access

Go back to course content and recordings whenever you need to.

Community of peers

Stay accountable and share insights with like-minded professionals.

Certificate of completion

Share your new skills with your employer or on LinkedIn.

Written guides with screenshots for every workflow

Reference material you can easily refer back to any time

MCP server with all course materials

Ask Claude or ChatGPT questions about the course and get immediate answers

Maven Guarantee

Your purchase is backed by the Maven Guarantee.

Course syllabus

Week 1

Jul 13—Jul 19

    Foundations & Discovery

    • Jul

      13

      Cohort Kick Off

      Mon 7/134:00 PM—4:30 PM (UTC)

    • Jul

      14

      Optional: Installation & Setup Office Hours

      Tue 7/142:00 PM—4:00 PM (UTC)
      Optional

    • Jul

      15

      Optional: Installation & Setup Office Hours

      Wed 7/156:00 PM—8:00 PM (UTC)
      Optional

    • Jul

      17

      Foundations & Discovery

      Fri 7/174:00 PM—5:30 PM (UTC)

Week 2

Jul 20—Jul 26

    Prototype Your Feature

    • Jul

      20

      Lab #1: Skills, MCP, and subagents

      Mon 7/204:00 PM—5:00 PM (UTC)

    • Jul

      20

      Optional: Office Hours

      Mon 7/205:00 PM—6:00 PM (UTC)
      Optional

    • Jul

      24

      Prototype Your Feature

      Fri 7/244:00 PM—5:30 PM (UTC)

Schedule

Live sessions

4-6 hrs / week

    • Mon, Aug 10

      4:00 PM—5:00 PM (UTC)

    • Mon, Aug 10

      5:00 PM—6:00 PM (UTC)

    • Mon, Jul 13

      4:00 PM—4:30 PM (UTC)

Projects

1-3 hrs / week

Async content

2 hrs / week

Frequently asked questions

Maven for Teams

Reimbursement

Get your company to pay

Everything L&D needs: email template, receipts, and certificate of completion.

Get reimbursed

Team discount

Learn with your teammates

Save 20%+ when 2 or more teammates enroll in the same cohort.

Save 20%+ with a team

Private cohort

Run a cohort for your org

A dedicated cohort with a custom schedule and curriculum, tailored to your team.

Book a private cohort

$2,500

USD

Jul 13—Aug 12
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